Some determinants of path generating functions, II
Combinatorics
2018-08-31 v3
Abstract
We evaluate Hankel determinants of matrices in which the entries are generating functions for paths consisting of up-steps, down-steps and level steps with a fixed starting point but variable end point. By specialisation, these determinant evaluations have numerous corollaries. In particular, one consequence is that the Hankel determinant of Motzkin prefix numbers equals 1, regardless of the size of the Hankel matrix.
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@article{arxiv.1802.05990,
title = {Some determinants of path generating functions, II},
author = {Christian Krattenthaler and Daniel Yaqubi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05990},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
AmS-TeX, 32 pages; minor corrections